Avevsr 20, 1859.] 
THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND — GAZETTE. 
699 
ks of the €— and sage, , Whose name we 
and 
e of science of al 
of material LT is 
those | Ameri 
of he nto co 
land of — and 
pointed out all this 
Ith to — o but she e guard ards it now. 
foods," 
trade which brings the products o 
— with — of the cheap 
ca. 8 — not only has 
source of w 
extended, that they are not, — — be, fü ly 
ord ! 
quack “cattle ee a 
ish 
shaded localities, with the soil in high condition 
Lu ee the Swedish Tu ra ) should never 
m- [ly ji 
| be singled less than 12 inches ay and generally it 
| will be — ndvantag reous to * n about 15 inches. 
The e la argest edes r I saw were some th at had 
ciated until the know 2 y th 
5 &c. , are all * I —— to flor 
before - world tha 
Il, or that "they did not — 
from am » original — left to t 
vho are too orant or too — jadice 
to avail themsel ves s of her — The latter will 
l 
And even where histor, ory records the M A ol an 
have to learn wisdom as Ben. Franklin hoped G 
III. might, when he would not -— the theory 
i electrical conductors, because a Tory courtier 
ulti- 
eorge | g 
of | light manures, 
I 
were not v 
| field. 
E in comparison with the rest of the 
In high Á— — Pt where the land is in 
heart, or has received a good al — of the 
1 — wil also be fi a good 
width. I performed a small experiment p season, 
but I am sorry that fro; om some 
m 
* — e — o — enjoy the A 
seldom think — — relation to cis e form 
thi g in the of i sited 
ces," — j ng all t e 
n 
and opponent of the republican philosopher "o 
ter thar ee 
upper end of lightning rods to 
the — fluid. 
It s true that _there have been many questions in | 
In a field mot yet in high edition, nor very 
— manured, I 
" ewt. s 2 nd 
e, and at 2 * — 1 
2 "^r of b 
n ashes 
jon opaque mineral substance 
a she das not at first answered correctly ; | ; 
got 2 tons 
. ‘and 16 tons 1 cwt. of bulbs, or '9 ewt. per acre 
of the 
she has yet — 
r4 
iss éh m e 
— 
"od 
her established notions. 
her fut 
But e from the 
I. he i is now applied. 
full of their bearing 
rat 
— 
uma we are i x or seeing | 
ic an ^p — a dca research has "e for | 
all d emen of human progress. It is in the spirit | 
of such contemplation that we must examine yere at 
agriculture, and hope for what she | 
EJ 
= 
n not particularly 
to the scientific. vod for "groat ability in 
— associat: "e n grea ult: 
4 
| mecha’ 
of It 
r( 
a Tum — — our schoo| 
f| w boy at hom 
ment us m as it tes to agric 
another service of vast 
. — 
association with the daily labour of him who cultivates 
the soil. It is supply ing 
agriculturist to thir uk and cultivate his 
hought 
culture has Te and 
im It is 
powers of | 
M: 
ractical question, the develop- | more 
material which must teach the | 
e part th inned 9 inches wide. The pro- 
ear obtained 21 tons 
lined 12 2 wide 
wide — should be 
" on 
t profita ble 
. M‘Lagan in a succeeding 
praetised where the soil i 
the manure baa been liberally applied. 
mind, without giving him a distaste for an occupatio 
which, without — is aid — science, would be so — 
nical as to weary out an active mind. 
is a well- — fact, "which our su 
popular education in America has 
demonstrated than could be 
— hna = 
perior system 
more fully 
orthless 
—— enters 
scienti fic 
compe tent & 
the able researches of such profound investigators 
Ampere, Oe Oe rsted, Ohm, Fa: raday, and | Gauss, who have 
this subject, he will find the name of such practical |t 
minds as those of Steinheil, Morse, Wheatstone, House, | 
ie which the mind may 
titining which 
th 
| for Swedes, “while for whites and yellows the pianta 
y be le eft much closer, eh in the latter case v 
—.— size, while it is said chat — larger we prow 
Swedes the more nourishing the roots are. A: nas 
found, - W iala n ing omparative 
we ep 
the e 
T a — eher 
An 1 compared with the 
T qe s of — value, 
8 
and others mo intim mately associ associated with the dis- 
covery aos ectric telegraph. 
The t clans of men have spent long lives devoted | co 
to able research into damental principles, which 
when developed the more practical character of — 
second class enabl apply. has p 
formed an essential an important part; but "the 
mportance of the fi 
| show what may be done, and how vastly 
e * 
ntro t its own powers ; still, enough has been done to 
m nt it 
i oe yq that more should b 
" We t a science of agriculture so do 
relo oped as to 
be taught. in our schools, a system as 
rig gidly scientific 
atter 
the latter, z — more practical phase ‘of the 1 
uses the eye almost, entirely to loso 
tha t 
hat science h ; 
out more clearly as advantages 10 
— do the researches of Ampere 
erchant who uses the — 
— here dw ell upon 
e ten de d to the dev a. 
sight of | is, 
eral | the: 
er leaving it agriculture 
At present the farmer” s son who attends our schools 
if he be at all a successful student, obli ed to throw 
develope her resources, the na‘ 
from father to sonis deran 
ATAS E 
fib at 
* 
1 of our —.— I — Y e dw. à at 
length upon the — — 5 A 
ntifi 
our means of sci 
DET: / 
of chemist 
- | home, — an anxious — 
— true, longer to 
ous 
m as in conse- 
quence 9 the repulsive — of the position upon 
which he had turned his 
| 
arge 
early ‘ight; while the 
white , varieties have afforded per cent. and in the 
ar only 3 b per cent. of their whole weight.” 
rees the results obtained by Mr. G. 
me ith 
Sinclai air, as pyar 1 in the Hortus Gramineus W Fobur- 
nensis, that 64 drachms of p^ — gest roots of the 
Swedish Tarn ip produced 110 g of nutriment, and 
the same weight of the small roots Pei eas ed 99 grains 
of natriment, and 64 dra chm of the amen loaf 
| vi ariety, measuring ve only 723 
grains, while the same quantity of a root measuring 
only 4 inches has been 
— 80." subject 
der 
than large ones 3 en ore ot the particulars 
tg ese gentlemen’s investigations before us at present, 
e will not allude farther to them, but will proceed to 
for pist the — r the bulb is the 
| diee nutriment it ing then that the 
estimate of the — "proportions of nutriment in 
grow Turnips 
44 oe following de we do - allude to Swedes, 
are of o m 
oreign to the associations sri his i “with at m | 
| talent — above m meets with 1 » ut 
parti ccess or — fürs, while the — fa — at 
oot 
of his bad su. 
the bills 
is is no fi 
-—— — me aes thaw 
| foll 
gra d EN is 5 6 thi 
small Turnips mentioned before i 
of — — research — of the 
mere doll d cent view of its value. 
SING LING. OF TURNIPS 
„Tux "mon or thinning of Turnips is an operation 
— of dum 
pro- 
duce of a then the pro- 
But y by all the vantages 
, Culture by science, which are here suggested, th 
ion e su disco 
and the wan nen We "s very, 
This involves the he ade an of the ph Phosphates, the 
attach to i not require to enter into any 
condition 
ber mi 
most farm 
ä — 
experime toe 
guanos, the saltpetres, th 
residual products of the rocesses in the 
which elonistry, like a — ioni 
averag —— — 
obtained by singling out the plants to 12 ne 
vented from | going to waste by colleetin 
out their us 
these auesti ad 
— — ‘to prove » that we wil get from a = of | tons s 
cons; Ms ncy | soil i much ‘bulbs when 
. have Eoo x i 
we 
afforded to ag i 
ary; 
ral greater differe 
‘than | between crops siu and wide thinned; an a elieve 
Miam shi n have been 18 
tons if K. Bu t the 15 
ent of he erop, esa d ‘thinning, 
he mage and filling the carts before carting 
wow | hte We do not consider the results stated by Mr. 
; on — . we 
uce 
that the » larger the crop i is—that i is, the higher the co! 
Mr. M‘Lagan of _Pumpherston si said, in a pay 
is the = -— rieultural count; 
Das gone — nu re and ex 
ry in the world—why 
limited territory, in 
her 
— 
e ne she | * 
years ago: 
*From an extensive correspon ndence which I have had 
with friends who take an interest in this question, I 
free | have arrived at the following conclusion, that in 
f the manure, the greater will be the difference i in ‘the 
produ ce — wide and close-thinned crops. The 
terms large and small are rather indefinite, and must . 
-|vary according to the nature of the soil; thus a Turnip 
